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I believe we should abolish the filibuster. i do not believe an archaic rule should be used to allow us to put our heads in the sand, to use justice sotomayor's words, to put our heads in the sand and not take action on the important issues, the challenges that are facing our country right now, now and over the next years. we just will get nowhere if we keep this fill bust in place. how do we do it? there have been those including senator manchin that has signaled an interest in what's called the standing filibuster where you basically require the other side to have to be there day in and day ...

Reserved for later in the day and morning business be closed. finally, the senate consideration of the house message to accompany hr-195. >> is there objection? >> without objection. >> no further business come before the senate, stand adjourned on the previous order. >> senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> there you have it. doesn't sound like there's going to be a vote tonight. let's check in on capitol hill. are we interpreting that correctly? that no e vote tonight? >> that's right. no vote tonight. government is still shut down. we'll head into day three of this 2018 gove...

Another exciting event, dinner with the president and other gop colleagues at a restaurant. >> steve: a new economy, new employment world and now the new interview. 140 seconds. that's all you could do it in. can you believe that? that's all you get. we're going to explain that and so much more. "fox & friends" hour two for this thursday starts right now. >> steve: we just showed the clip of rand paul having a food break. he took a bite of milky way. if you were going to have a bite of something in 13 hours works it be that? >> brian: it taste good, but remember the nugget is stretchy. just a ...

Jimmy, what happens if section 5 of the voting rights act is knocked down? does it go back to the congress? and what happens when it's considered by the congress? >> when they passed the 15th amendment it gave congress a huge amount of latitude, if you will, to do whatever they need to do legislatively under that amendment to the constitution. if the court strikes down section 5 and even worse section 2 which applies to the entire country, then the congress would have to go back in and would have to rewrite essentially a brand new voting rights act. and if that's the case, you have a democrati...

Rid of the filibuster. there's nothing in the constitution. madison wrote nothing of the filibuster. but i want everybody to hear, though, because for the past four years, we have been hearing how evil the republican party is because they filibuster. >> yeah. >> harry reid, the democratic senate, senators like claire mccaskill, senators like, you know, kirsten gillibrand, senators like chuck schumer. they can all get rid of the filibuster at the beginning of january. so why don't -- if the filibuster is so evil and if the republicans are so evil for wielding the filibuster, this is very easy. ...